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A dimerized fermion chain, described by Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, is a well-known example of 1D system with a non-trivial band topology. An interplay of disorder and topological ordering in the SSH model is of a great interest owing…

The hybrid atoms-cell site entanglement in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) topological insulator with first and second neighbor hopping interaction in space representation of finite chains is analyzed. The geometric phase is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Francisco A. Domínguez-Serna , F. Rojas

The on-site potentials may break the symmetry of a system, resulting in the loss of its original topology protected by the symmetry. In this work, we study the counteracting effect of non-Hermitian terms on real potentials, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 E. S. Ma , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

We report an actively tunable topological edge mode laser in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) laser chain, where the SSH chain is realized in an electrically-injected Fabry-Perot (FP) laser chain. A non-Hermitian SSH model is…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-24 Ruizhe Yao , Hang Li , Bowen Zheng , Sensong An , Jun Ding , Chi-Sen Lee , Hualiang Zhang , Wei Guo

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is one of the simplest models to show topological end/edge states and the existence of Majorana fermions. Here we consider a SSH like model both in one and two dimensions where a nearest neighbor hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Satyaki Kar

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes the dynamics of spinless fermions in a one-dimensional lattice, with sublattices $A$ and $B$, and governed by staggered hopping potentials $v$ and $w$ representing the intracell and intercell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Dyn Paulo C. Dasallas , Eduardo C. Cuansing

Using Hartree-Fock mean-field approach, we study the role of on-site ($U$) and extended ($V$) Hubbard interactions on the existence and evolution of edge modes in a half-filled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain. We analyze the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Rahul Samanta , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

We consider the non-Hermitian, parity-time (PT) symmetric extensions of the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in the topological non-trivial configuration. We study the properties of the topologically protected edge states,…

The Hamiltonian for the one-dimensional SSH chain is one of the simplest Hamiltonians that supports topological states. This work considers between one and three finite SSH chains with open boundary conditions that either share a lattice…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 C. I. Kvande , D. B. Hill , D. Blume

In this paper, we discuss the topological and transport properties of binary heterostructures of different topological materials. Using the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and the method of Green's functions, we calculate and characterize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 R. Pineda , W. J. Herrera

It has been recently proposed that the reduced density matrix may be used to derive the order parameter of a condensed matter system. Here we propose order parameters for the phases of a topological insulator, specifically a spinless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 Wing Chi Yu , Yan Chao Li , P. D. Sacramento , Hai-Qing Lin

In this paper, we review the basic concepts of topologically protected edge modes using the Su Schrieffer Heeger (SSH) model, originally introduced to describe electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene polymer chains. We then propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 L. Q. English , A. Halchenko , F. Palmero

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is fundamental in topological insulators and relevant to understanding higher-order topological phases. This study explores the relationship between the $n$-dimensional SSH model and its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-29 Feng Liu

Topological phase transitions are found in a variety of systems and were shown to be deeply related with a thermodynamic description through scaling relations. Here, we investigate the entanglement entropy, which is a quantity that captures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 D. F. Munoz-Arboleda , R. Arouca , C. Morais Smith

We investigate the spectral properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with sublattice-dependent onsite nonlinearity. Two complementary approaches are employed in our studies. First, Bloch state solutions under periodic boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ahmed Alharthy , RW Bomantara

We investigate a variant of the SSH model consisting of an SSH chain with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring. The embedded ring gives rise to domain wall states whose energy levels are in the band gap. The dependence of some of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-08 A. P. Garrido , A. R. Plastino , M. L. Ladrón de Guevara , V. M. Apel

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is the reference model of a one-dimensional topological insulator. Its topological nature can be explained by the quantization of the Zak phase, due to reflection symmetry of the unit cell, or of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Malte Röntgen , Xuelong Chen , Wenlong Gao , Maxim Pyzh , Peter Schmelcher , Vincent Pagneux , Vassos Achilleos , Antonin Coutant

Metamaterials engineered to host topological states of matter in controllable quantum systems hold promise for the advancement of quantum simulations and quantum computing technologies. In this context, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model…

In polymer science, cross-linking of polymer chains yields a substantially modified system compared to the one-dimensional constituent chains, due to the increase of dimensionality and effective seeding by defects (cross-linking sites).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 A. Sivan , M. Orenstein

Entanglement entropy (EE) provides a powerful probe of quantum phases, yet its role in identifying topological phase transitions in disordered systems remains underexplored. We introduce an exact EE-based framework that captures topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Manish Kumar , Bharadwaj Vedula , Suhas Gangadharaiah , Auditya Sharma